“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor.”
This was just one of the many typically angry utterances of Dr. Leonard McCoy aka Bones played by actor DeForest Kelley as Chief Medical Officer on The U.S.S. Enterprise in the TV show ‘Star Trek’.
He spoke many variations of it over the three-year run of the show that have become entrenched in popular culture. Ironically the most quoted of them, “D a m n it, Jim, I’m a doctor not a …”, was never actually spoken with the explicative but it sounds so much better with it.
enigmamz 11 months ago
Discussing the existence of Santa Claus.
syzygy47 11 months ago
Better than some of the things Bones (Deforest K) would say, like “pointed-eared hobgoblin”.
ladykat 10 months ago
I suppose that’s one way to describe Spock.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member 10 months ago
“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor.”
This was just one of the many typically angry utterances of Dr. Leonard McCoy aka Bones played by actor DeForest Kelley as Chief Medical Officer on The U.S.S. Enterprise in the TV show ‘Star Trek’.
He spoke many variations of it over the three-year run of the show that have become entrenched in popular culture. Ironically the most quoted of them, “D a m n it, Jim, I’m a doctor not a …”, was never actually spoken with the explicative but it sounds so much better with it.
raybarb44 10 months ago
A dynamic television duo, if ever there was one……